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Manila on highest terror alert in 16 years

MANILA: The Philippine capital was put on its highest terror alert in 16 years.

This came after police arrested two alleged members of an Islamic terrorist group over a makeshift bomb planted near the US embassy on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Philippine National Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa said yesterday that security alert had been raised to Level 3.

He said there will be more police raids and that security around public places such as shopping malls will be increased.

The two suspects are said to be from a group backing the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the police chief said yesterday.

Three more suspects are being hunted, said Mr Dela Rosa at a news conference where he presented the two suspects: Rashid Kilala and Jiaher Guinar, both of Marawi, a mostly Muslim city in the war-torn southern island group of Mindanao.